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Getting Reagan Right
by Paul Kengor|
Getting Reagan Right
A Giant Leap, Fifty Years On
The fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 11 is a time for honoring that human spirit that drives us to extraordinary achievements previously thought impossible.
This view of Earth rising over the Moon's horizon was taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. The lunar terrain pictured is in the area of Smyth's Sea on the nearside. Coordinates of the center of the terrain are 85 degrees east longitude and 3 degrees north latitude. Image Credit: NASAPolitics as War: A Conversation with David Davenport
President Roosevelt delivers a "Fireside Chat".The Problem with Paris: an Alternative Reading of Pawlikowski’s Cold War
Still image from Cold War (Opus Films/Amazon Studios).Solzhenitsyn in Exile
Solzhenitsyn had become, as the foreign policy analysts say, an existential threat to the Soviet Union. He had to be expelled.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is mobbed by journalists on his arrival in Zurich in 1974 after being deprived of his Soviet citizenship following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. (Keystone/Getty Images)American Polarization and Extremism Are Just a Return to Normalcy
Image: MIA Studio/Shutterstock.comDeutschland 86: Show Me the Way Home
American Heresies and the Betrayal of the National Interest: A Conversation with Walter McDougall
Ken Burns’ Vietnam
Journalists often claim to write the first draft of history, but that statement raises the question when a story turns from current events into history. The Vietnam War now stands closer to World War II than 2017. A formative experience for the baby boom generation, those who came of age after 1990 see Vietnam as an episode in history. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns captures the immediacy of the conflict in the ten episode series The Vietnam War airing on PBS. The series also raises larger questions about American foreign policy that resonate today.
“The Message Was Freedom”: Tomasz Stańko’s Anticommunist Polish Jazz
Tomasz StańkoOne of the most inspiring yet least known stories of resistance to communism during the Cold War is that of Poland’s Tomasz Stańko. Stańko, 74, is a jazz trumpeter whose beautiful, minimalistic and meditative style of playing is considered by many to be one of the great treasures of modern music. His new release, December Avenue, is a strong effort in what has been a remarkable series of albums over the last 15 years for the great German jazz label ECM. December Avenue is enjoyable on its own simply as a sublime record, but it takes on a dimension of historical…
